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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780792715177
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 0792715179
Label: Sound Library
Manufacturer: Sound Library
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1993-05
Publisher: Sound Library
Studio: Sound Library

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: unrealistically portrays an avid reader of any age
Review: Just one flaw:

The narrator of this story is presented as an avid reader, yet he speaks with a weak vocabulary and weak sentence structure.
By my count, he uses the catch-all phrase "and all" 174 times.
He accuses most adults of putting on a false front, so, by my count, he uses the word "phony" 47 times. A student with above average literacy skills would likely look the word up in a thesaurus.

His little sister Phoebe, who is presented as an honor student, is likewise verbally deficient. During the conversation in the bedroom, she uses the phrase "and everything" 5 times.

This is especially unrealistic considering that Holden and Phoebe's parents are viligant about their children's verbal expression. During the bedroom conversation, we see that the word "lousy" is verboten in the Caulfield household.

Salinger probably held a stereotype that all adolescents and children speak with a weak vocabulary and weak sentence structure.

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